Vehicle.



. No. 862,968. Y PATENTED AUG. 13, 1907.

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UNITED STATES CHARLES CRETORS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VEHICLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1907.

Application filed December 27,1906. Serial No. 349,721.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES CRnToRs, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicles,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of vehicles used in the retailvending of pop-corn, roasted peanuts and the like, and has for itsobject to provide a simple and eflicient structural arrangement andcombination of parts whereby a containing drawer for a reserve supply ofthe commodities, and of extended capacity, is provided beneath the rearend of the vehicle, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1, is a detail longitudinal sectionof the lower rear portion of a vehicle with the present inventionapplied. Fig. 2, isa detail transverse section on line Fig. 1,illustrating the sliding connection of the drawer to the bottom of thevehicle. 7

Similarnumerals of reference indicate like parts in both views.

Referring to the drawing, 1 represents the floor or bottom of thevehicle, and 2 the rear axle by which the rear end of the vehicle bodyis supported.

3, is a drawer sliding in guide tracks 4, on the underside of thevehicle floor or body as shown. In the present improvement such draweris formed with a deep portion 5, at its rear end and with a shallowportion (3 at its forward end, as shown, and the arrangement is suchthat the shallow portion 6, is immediately above the axle 2, while thedeep portion 5 depends to the rear of the axle, and as so arrangedaffords a maximum capacity to the drawer.

Having thus fully described my said invention what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent In a vehicle of the character hereindescribed, the com-

